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Re: General Manga News and Announcements

In the May 14 edition of its book sales rankings, Oricon reports that the 66th One Piece manga volume, which was released on May 2, sold 2,275,453 copies to become the top-selling comic of the week and the fifth consecutive One Piece volume to sell over 2 million copies in its first week.

After this week's sales, Oricon has calculated that over 100 million copies of One Piece have been sold in four years — making it the first series in any book category to break 100 million in sales since the company began publishing its ranking charts in April 2008. (Oricon does not report on sales figures before April 2008.) 4 million copies of the 66th volume were printed in total, making it the third consecutive One Piece volume to receive a first printing of that scale.

Re: General Manga News and Announcements

It's interesting that Vinland Saga won the award this year. The story has been stuck in what fans call "Farmland Saga" for at least this entire year (I think) and most fans seem to be at best indifferent to it. I don't agree, I think the manga has been as strong as it has ever been.

Re: General Manga News and Announcements

Originally Posted by xi0

It's interesting that Vinland Saga won the award this year. The story has been stuck in what fans call "Farmland Saga" for at least this entire year (I think) and most fans seem to be at best indifferent to it. I don't agree, I think the manga has been as strong as it has ever been.

after reading it i now understand the term farmland saga. i thought it would mean something like fanservice in regard of only battle scences like bleach did it. but the last chapter i read looked like the farmland part will turn into a bloody gore festival.

Re: General Manga News and Announcements

Hanma Baki will be ending in ten chapters or less. full story. Mangaka Keisuke Itagaki will serialize Kizuzura, a Baki Grappler spin off, and says he may return to the Baki character at some point in the future.

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I was surprised to find out Baki Gaiden:Scarface and the upcoming Kizuzuru aren't drawn by Itagaki himself. The guy who does them does a really good job at emulating Itagaki's style. He must have been his assistant or something.

Re: General Manga News and Announcements

On Wednesday, the October issue of Shueisha's Ultra Jump magazine will bundle a booklet in which an all-star lineup of manga creators celebrate the 25th anniversary of Hirohiko Araki's JoJo's Bizarre Adventure manga. The JoJo 25th Anniversary Book will boast contributions from the following:

Akira Akatsuki (Medaka Box)

Osamu Akimoto (Kochira Katsushika-ku Kamearikouen-mae Hashutsujo)

Akira Amano (Reborn!)

Kyosuke Usuta (Sexy Commando Gaiden: Sugoi yo!! Masaru-san)

Tsugumi Ohba (Death Note)

Takeshi Obata (Death Note)

Eiichiro Oda (One Piece)

Masashi Kishimoto (Naruto)

Tite Kubo (Bleach)

CLAMP (X, Gate 7)

Hiroshi Shiibashi (Nura: Rise of the Yokai Clan)

Kenta Shinohara (Sket Dance)

Mitsutoshi Shimabukuro (Toriko)

Hideaki Sorachi (Gintama)

Kazuki Takahashi (Yu-Gi-Oh!)

Hiroyuki Takei (Shaman King)

Ryūhei Tamura (Beelzebub)

Yoshihiro Togashi (Hunter X Hunter)

Akira Toriyama (Dragon Ball)

NisiOisin (Medaka Box)

Tadatoshi Fujimaki (Kuroko's Basketball)

Yuusuke Murata (Eyeshield 21)

2012 is not only the 25th anniversary of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, but also Araki's 30th year as a serialized manga creator.

After 19 years, Hiroaki Samura will end his historical manga Blade of the Immortal (Mugen no Jūnin) in the February 2013 issue of Kodansha's Monthly Afternoon magazine on December 25. The manga launched in the same magazine in December of 1993, and its first 29 volumes have 5 million copies in circulation. The magazine's November issue published the 216th chapter on Tuesday and revealed that the manga will end in the 219th.